Visual art inspired by climate change—An analysis of audience reactions to 37 artworks presented during 21st UN climate summit in Paris

"support for climate policy" was ordered-categorical, we report the three thresholds in the table. The outcome variable was linked in the regression through a probit link. B = unstandardized loading; SE = standard error; Beta = standardized loading; p = significance level. (DOCX) Acknowledgments We thank the other project partners Janet Swim (Penn State University), Paul Stern (Social and Environmental Research Institute, Northampton), Sam Jury (University of Hertfordshire), David Buckland (Cape Farewell), Martina Zienert & Joachim Borner (KMGNE), Edgar Hert- wich (Yale University), Peter Huybers (Harvard University), Laura Coleman (ONCA gallery Brighton), and Liselotte Roosen (NTNU) for their valuable input to the project and comments on earlier versions of this paper. Janet Swim and Paul Stern were particularly involved in dis- cussions around this paper. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Data curation: Laura K. Sommer. Formal analysis: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner, Laura K. Sommer. Funding acquisition: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Investigation: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner, Laura K. Sommer. Methodology: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Project administration: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner, Laura K. Sommer. Resources: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Validation: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Visualization: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Writing – original draft: Christian Andreas Klo¨ckner. Writing – review & editing: Laura K. Sommer. References 1. Dunaway F. Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet. Environmental His-

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